What secular (non-religious)
progressives (AKA: Democrats) believe
The
civil society is an aggregation of individuals bound together by the state and
those institutions permitted by the state.
The state has total and universal jurisdiction over the public
and public goods.
The state has the right to redefine the fundamental social
institutions it was created to defend and can rejected the constitution’s
premise of limited government.
Marriage
is a mere legal convention and subject to redefinition at the whim of the state.
The state can legitimately redefine marriage—not just around the
margins, and there is no place in society to which the authority of the state
does not extend.
The institutions of civil society—marriage, family, schools,
charities, even houses of worship (to the extent they minister publicly)—have
no rights or authority proper to themselves.
The institutions of civil society are mere functionaries of
state power, and they are to be considered as government subcontractors
exercising authority that has been given them by the state, and which can be
removed by the state as utility or efficiency (or the whim of the majority)
demands.
The civil society and all the institutions that comprise it are
mere aggregations of individuals. Individual interest and the assertion of
individual rights constitute the sum total of the political and social
goods. Judges are functionaries who serve the aims of the state and may
make laws that were previously legislated by the peoples’ votes.
As former Congressman Barney Frank said, “Government is simply
the name we give to the things we choose to do together.”
As the Democratic National Convention informed us in 2102,
“Government is the one thing we all belong to.”
“Marriage
Equality” just means all types of marriages are just de facto civil unions
for all. “Marriage” is a creation of the state and only exists to
serve the state.
The state can deconstruct marriage, and it can deconstruct other
social entities and institutions as well.
The state can deny the Church her rightful place in public life
by placing onerous conditions on her participation in society.
Religious liberty is exclusively a matter of individual
conscience and not a right proper to institutions as well. Therefore, the
Church is no longer free to practice publicly what is not acceptable to the
state.
The church is subordinate to the state.
The state has jurisdiction over all public goods, foregoing only
(certain) private goods makes the state the de
facto superior religion
(the secular “Church of the Left”).
Therefore, the
government is the state religion.
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